Bread & Roses:Greensboro Massacre: 40 Years Later (Discussion
Date and Time
Nov 20, 2019 6:00 pm
Location
Takoma
235 Carroll St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20012
Nov 20, 2019 6:00 pm
Takoma
Jointly sponsored by Bread & Roses and ACTORPanel discussion with Rev. Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson (both survivors of the massacre) and retired Attorney Lewis Pitts who represented the widows and survivors of the Massacre in their successful civil suit against the KKK, the Nazis, and the City of Greensboro. The panel will be preceeded by a 23 minute documentary/retrospective film about the attack.On November 3 1979, five young labor and community activists were gunned down in broad daylight in Greensboro, North Carolina by KKK and neo-Nazis, aided by local police and federal agents. The killers were acquitted twice by all-white juries. In a third civil trial, the role of the government was finally proven and acknowledged. Who were these five extraordinary people and why were they murdered? How did it happen? Who are their survivors and what has their continued work for social change and search for justice yielded since November 3, 1979? What lessons from the Greensboro massacre are relevant for activists today? Please attend our commemoration of their lives which will include a brief film and panel discussion.
